PowerCampus Integration

Coursedog has built a tight, bi-directional integration to both GET and POST schedule planning data into PowerCampus. 

Overview

We have built a PowerCampus integration to pull data into Coursedog for: 

1. Rooms

2. Buildings

3. Faculty

4. Terms

5. Courses

We have built a bi-directional (POST) integration to PowerCampus for:

1. Sections

Rooms & Buildings

For rooms & buildings, we GET the following information

1. Room ID

2. Name

3. Display Name

4. Capacity

5. Features

6. Building ID

7. Building Name

Note: We do not get Room Status, but your institution may use that field so we set it as a "Coursedog owned" field in their environment.

Faculty

We are getting the following fields from faculty

1. ID

2. First Name

3. Last Name

4. Department(s)

Terms

We are getting the following fields

1. Term Name

2. Term Year

3. Term Start Date

4. Term End Date

5. Term Code

6. Parts of Term

N2N SQL Filters: None

Courses

We are getting courses separated by term (i.e. to get courses, you have to pass a term code). The courses returned are all active courses that have at least one section assigned to them - this is done as a proxy to determine all courses that are available for a certain term.

We are getting the following fields

1. ID

2. Code

3. Name

4. Description

5. College Code

6. Status

Sections - GET

We are getting the following fields

1. ID

2. Section Number

3. Call Number

4. Course Id

5. Section Type

6. Grade Mode

7. Campus

8. Credit Hours

9. Status

10. Notes

11. Max Enrollment

12. Preferred Room Features (LCAD only)

13. Preferred Room Type (LCAD only)

14. Preferred Room Capacity (LCAD only)

15. Preferred Building (LCAD only)

16. Academic Session

17. Subject Type

18. Professors

19. Professor Role

20. Professor Percentage

21. Times

22. Rooms

Some institutions may have additional fields because they have a custom room constraint table in PC that we are pulling from.

On the Coursedog side, we filter returned data to only show active sections. 

Sections - POST

We are only updating existing sections - currently, we do not have the ability to create new sections or delete existing sections. However, for our next integration patch within the next few months, we will be able to create new sections and delete sections. 

In POSTing section updates, we are able to update the following fields

1. Meeting Times

2. Meeting Days

3. Meeting Room

4. Instructors

5. Instructor Percentage

By default, we auto-calculate the instructor percentages so if there are 3 instructors, the percentages are 33,33, and 34.

Additionally, we require the following fields to exist to execute a POST transaction

1. Course Id

2. Section Number

3. Call Number

4. Academic Session

5. Subject Type

Note: It was identified that PowerCampus integration allows users to add up to six instructors at a time and although it's being tracked, it may take some time to allow more addition of more than six instructors. Considering this limitation and considering that there are some cases where a section may have more than six instructors, as a workaround, we suggest users to the instructors in PowerCampus directly.

Avoiding Duplicates

In order to avoid duplicate records we have added the following filters in our integration:

For a link to a forwardable slide deck detailing the SIS integration architecture, go here. 

For additional info on the Gateway/Dataport, see the following article detailing the setup and configuration of the IIG. For HECVAT on the Gateway, see here.